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[Nexus S General] Androyed:
I don't have any knowledge about rooting and all that stuff, but I'm that kind of user that wants the best out of his device. And I think this guide can even help the stupidest person. :) So I'm going to try it.

I have a question though. 2.3.4 OTA is on the way. When I root my phone now, with 2.3.3 installed, what happens when the OTA update comes in a couple of weeks? Should I install the 2.3.4 update manually first?

I'm probably going to ask a lot more when I'm busy following this guide. Thanks in advance!

EDIT; I found this guide: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1056940. It is a guide for updating a rooted Nexus S to 2.3.4. For all versions. I guess that's what I got to do after I've rooted my phone with this guide here?
[Nexus S General] Fmbl:
Hey all,

If tried rooting my phone before without suc6 really, so im gonna try again, hope you guys will help me out cause im stuck somewhat!

I am by no means an expert on this, so bear with me please!

Im running 34 Windows Vista.

I managed to complete the guide up until step 13 of part 1 "drivers".

Device manager recognizes an android phone, but when updating the driver software it doesnt show me a list of 3 choices, it only shows "Android ADB interface" ?

Can someone let me know if this is the one i should use?

Thnx!
[Nexus S General] zero383:
Uncheck show compatible devices
[Nexus S General] Fmbl:
Thnx but where do i do that?, i cant seem to find where to uncheck a compatible device

Thnx in advance!
[Nexus S General] zero383:
When you right click to "update drivers", choose "browse my computer" then "let me choose...". There should be a checkbox that says "show compatible hardware". Uncheck it and all 3 choices will appear. Choose the bootloader one.
[Nexus S General] afilopou:
Check my guide(link in my signature)
[Nexus S General] Fmbl:
Lol, now i dont know wich guide to follow anymore!

@Zero thnx for your help, i now have android bootloader interface visible!

Next:

When i open CMD and type "dir>C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools" it says, "The system cant find the stated (returnd) path"

When i type without dir> it says the program is not recognized as internal or external command, program or batchfile

So any ideas?
[Nexus S General] zero383:
Just find the Android folder through Windows Explorer and type in that path into CMD prompt.

If you installed the Android SDK into the default path under Win7 64bit type:

cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\tools

If you installed the Android SDK into the default path under Win7 32bit type:

cd C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\tools
[Nexus S General] Fmbl:
But im not on win7, im on Vista, that should mather right?
[Nexus S General] zero383:
Doesn't matter, I was just using it as an example.
[Nexus S General] Stanlehh:
Followed this guide and everything went smoothly overall except for a small hiccups here and there which can be solved easily.

Thanks alot!

& also to ask, how do I unroot my phone in future? And will the bootloader on my phone be permanently unlocked? Something I'll have to worry if I do send my phone in for repairs.
[Nexus S General] Fmbl:
@zero and Afilopou, thanks a lot for your help, i managed to get to part 4 "Root"

I downloaded SU and put the zip file in Platform tools, i dunno if i should of distracted the files, so the first time i didnt do that, then i followd the steps to push!

I was getting an error message saying "The device is not recognized"

So i extracted the zip in Platform-tools and tried again, and it showed me a lot of text and so i tried going to recovery but there was no SU file on the Sd card

Anyone an idea?

Thnx in advance, this is really appreciated!
[Nexus S General] TubeShaped:
I recently received my i9023 (it's such a neat device!) and was confused by the amount of steps in this guide. I decided to try it the official and short way:

- Download this file: http://android.d3xt3r01.tk/cyanogen/tools/linux_adb_fastboot.zip, and extract the contents to ~/bin.

- Setup udev according to this guide: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Udev

- in terminal type: sudo restart udev

- put the NS into bootloader mode

- in terminal type: fastboot oem unlock

- done!

Note that this is for linux and i9023. You don't even need the Android SDK!
[Nexus S General] Fmbl:
I did manage to install SU through android market, but i dunno if i was supposed to, or that i should now delete the previous SU stuff/package in platform-tools?

Also SU said i needed to updat through recovery because the binary updates dont run similar then that other thing i forgot!

when i did that it failed and got an error message saying "E:cant open /sdcard/su 2.3.1-bin-signed-zip" (bad) Installation aborted!

So i dunno what to do?

Once again thnx a lot!

Edit: i have root i was using a corrupted SU zip! Thnx all!
[Nexus S General] zero383:
Try this: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.noshufou.android.su.fixer
[Nexus S General] Androyed:
Since rooting involves unlocking the bootloader (for now), I need to make a back-up of as much as I can. However, for a NANDROID back-up you need root :). I guess there's no other way...

But I can back-up my data of course, and my apps with a file manager like Astro. To back-up my data, should I just copy my whole 'sd-card' (USB memory) to my computer? And then copy it back? Can I just do that, or is there more stuff on the sd-card that can't just be copied back?
[Nexus S General] Androyed:
I completed the first three parts (at least, I think that I did). I never thought I would make it this far, but I did! And I did encounter a problem. winapi.dll or something wasn't recognised, but I fixed it.

But now I'm really stuck.

First of all, Power ON the Nexus S. What does that mean? Not in Bootloader interface is my guess. But do I also have to set up my Google account and stuff?

I downloaded that zip file, and I've put it in the right directory. Then I tried to adb push. It said 'permission denied'. How do I fix that? Did I something wrong at Part 3? Can I check if I did Part 3 correctly?

EDIT: Ok, forget it. I just copied the .zip file to the sdcard, and it was all fine. I don't know what I did wrong with the adb push part, but it's fine now.

EDIT2: Forgot to thank you! So.. thanks! Never thought I could do this. Also thanks to Jonathon Grigg, his very detailed guide also helped me!
[Nexus S General] zero383:
You don't need root to do a nandroid backup. You just need to unlock the bootloader and flash CWM recovery through fastboot. Rooting is the part where you install the superuser package.

Nandroid backs up EVERYTHING on your phone including the boot, system, recovery, data... partitions on your internal storage as well as any programs you installed on your SD. Copying the files from your SD storage is not the same. If you mess up, that wont help you restore (except maybe your personal files like music, videos...)
[Nexus S General] sterescugabriel:
When i bought my phone i have :

Model number : Nexus S

Android version : 2.3.3

Baseband version : I9023XXKB1

Kernel version : 2.6.35.7-g1d030a7 android-build@apa28#1

Build Number : GRI40

now i have after flash the ROM

Model number : Nexus S

Android version : 2.3.3

Build number : GRI54

Baseband version : I9023XXKB3

Kernel version : 2.6.35.7-SuperAosp-S-UV superatmel@gmail #58

In Bootloader i have :

Bootloader version : I9020XXKA3

Baseband Version : I9020XXKB3

i don't know why do i have another version in bootloader ?

thanks in advance
[Nexus S General] maseman13:
Hi. Could you please tell me what did you do to make it work?? I get the same error as you 'cannot load ******.img'

It's driving me crazy. thank you

When I do fastboot device I get the serial number for the phone.
[Nexus S General] ahdee:
For those who can't get adb to recognize your device, remember to enable USB debugging mode in setting>application>development
[Nexus S General] Glimmy:
Ok so I have managed to go through these steps and install CM7. I had done a backup prior to putting CM7 on too. Once I got CM7 installed I runned a restore from Titanium backup and for some reason now my security password (not the SIM one) is not accepted. Does anyone have any ideas? Is there anything within recovery (reboot -> recovery) I can do to clear the passsword?

Thank you in advance!
[Nexus S General] zero383:
Security password? The only password I know of is the SIM lock and any encryption passphrase you created through Titanium Backup. Are you talking about the screen lock one?
[Nexus S General] Dani897:
does the rage against the cage root method not work on these phones? there is a nice app from clshortfuse that runs scripts to do the rageagainstthecage proceedure automatically on almost any phone. i guess this cant be done on the nexus? someone is asking me about rooting but i can only help them remotely and this is alot to follow when im directing someone over im from many miles away.
[Nexus S General] j33ry:
Post edited.
[Nexus S General] pratishk:
2.3.4 rooting...

Hi all,

Had a look at as many pages as I could in this forum..

I used to have 2.33 rooted, then re-installed stock 2.33 rom, after which I got the OTA update to 2.3.4, my phone is now stock 2.3.4 but is unlocked - as I could never connect back to the phone via fastboot.

The problem is I can not get it to root now as well and add clockwork recovery as fastboot and adb can not find the phone.

phone has USB debugging on

I have tried USBviewer and uninstalled old drivers

I have tried to update drivers to the Android Bootloader several times, with no luck..

phone is just not being found by adb or fastboot..

any suggestions...?
[Nexus S General] zero383:
Boot your phone into Fastboot mode then plug in the usb cable. Does it show up in Device Manager?
[Nexus S General] pratishk:
@zero383 Yes, shows up in device manager, and as android bootloader too, but when I do adb devices or fastboot devices in cmd prompt nothing shows up...

Update:

I decided to copy all my adb, fastboot and dll files again to my android tools folder in my C drive

Noticed that ADBWinApi.dll was larger in my androidtools folder than the original from the sdk folders, replaced it, and it worked! fastboot could finally see my Nexus..

not sure why i grew in size, or changed.. but all good now, hopefully if others are having this problem, re-copy all our dll files...?
[Nexus S General] kerc:
I still can't boot into recovery... keep getting the exclamation mark with the droid
[Nexus S General] zero383:
That is the stock recovery. If you want to use CWM recovery you have to flash it through fastboot (follow the guide).
[Nexus S General] kerc:
I've been doing that...
[Nexus S General] zero383:
After flashing in Fastboot mode, don't reboot the phone, immediately choose "Recovery" and see if its there. Some phones have a install-recovery.sh script that retores the stock recovery upon reboot. It seems that yours does. If you rename that file using a file manager like Root Explorer it will disable that script.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] juanicoenfer:
There is another way to access the download by pressing only two buttons. The method is as follows: With the phone off the USB cable is connected only to the mobile. Then tightened simultaneously volume - (minus) and the home key with one hand (which each managed as best they can) and the other is connected to the PC and the phone goes into download mode.

This way has been possible solved a semi-brick.

As my english is not very good here you have a link in spanish wher you can read the problem and the solution.

http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=195180

Cheers.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tonymy01:
It isn't really a 3 button download mode anyway, the power is just used to get it powered to notice the volume- and menu are held. By plugging into the pc, you are triggering the power up event instead of using the power key (only if it is a true usb port..my laptop dock has a usb "charge" port that won't trigger the phone power on, it triggers the on screen battery like the ac adapter and only adb works to the phone on that port, not usb mounting or odin).

I actually go to recovery or download by holding menu and vol, and only briefly pressing the power, makes it easier to focus on making sure you hold the vol and menu keys without accidentally releasing too soon (about 5 secs is enough to hold them down as it powers up).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] juanicoenfer:
Ok, but in a phone semi-brick without possibilty to access to download mode with the combo of the three buttoms this worked. It's only a new way, only that. Was discovered by accident and i share with you if it can be useful.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tonymy01:
Interesting if this can work where vol- + menu and then power doesn't! Good tip then if this is the case.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ragin:
Has anyone able to do this successfully?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ragin:
I think the guy who was able to get this done was using a USB jig with pin 4 & 5 shorted with 300+ transistors.

MY GOD THIS WORKS.

I am giving this thread 5 stars & recommending a sticky.

PS : I held Vol Dn + Menu leaving the USB cable plugged into the computer, Then inserted the other end into my phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kroat999:
Tested and it works !!!

Hold Volume down + Home button than plug usb in and your in download mode!!

Great
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
i tried that before it doesn't work for like 60%+ percent of people

because it's

heavily dependent

on the kind of USB port in use.

most computer don't have the correct USB port to work

and coincidentally, this will only work on people that already have working 3 buttons only

if their phones came shipped without the 3 buttons combo, it doesn't work.

However this is the

standard

method for all Galaxy S family that is not part of the I9000 line

so that means Nexus S, USA Vibrant, Verizon, and AT&T captivate... all the ones missing the hard button basically.

so the absolute most effective way is the Homemade USB JIG method
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chromax:
Works!

Great!
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] Cardolution:
Hi,

Cardolution will publish it´s b-Card Reader App for Android in a few weeks. So it´s possible to import all contact information from the b-Card into the address book within seconds.

Further info: cardolution.com
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] eiabea:
sounds great, and its a company from austria xD
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgkahn:
http://www.execdigital.com/gadgets/...android-30-honeycomb-open-source-distribution
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azzledazzle:
RUMOUR !!!

android will always be open source, its what makes it so popular and different, google wouldnt want to be anything like windows or apple.

look how massive android has become over the last 12-24 months, they wouldnt do anything to jeopardize that growth.

Thats my opinion, and i hope its many others
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Main Target:
The screen timeout on my phone somehow always gets set back to 15 second which is terribly annoying. Anyone know why this happens?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MihawkLFC:
Hello xda,

I have a problem with my all new Desire HD.

I rooted it (succesfully) and installed a few custom ROMs to try a few out.

I tried numerous ROMs (2.3.3 - now with CleanDHD) and all is working flawlessly, except for one major blow -> Widgets I install (CurrentWidget and minimalisticText)) aren't appearing in the "Widgets" tab after installation.

This isn't the only ROM this happend and since I'm not allowed yet to post in the development section - just to say that it doesn't seem to be romrelated.

Has someone here experienced a similiar problem and found a solution for this problem or is this a known issue?

Greetings and thanks for the help!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blinkydamo:
Check in the applications section in settings to see if the apps have been installed to the SD card. If so move them back to the phone and try again.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MihawkLFC:
Worked, thank you!
[G Tablet General] numberingravens:
I know this leaked awhile ago...but Staples just officially sent the email stating that the Xoom WiFi will be available on 3/27 for $599.99.

Dave
[G Tablet General] rljohnson:
BUT...It still does not appear to have a working MicroSD card slot!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wiebenik:
hello is it possible to transfer or (porting) the GUI of htc desire hd to LG P920 Optimus 3D? because i don,t like the weather app on LG P920 Optimus 3D.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PartTimeLegend:
Everything is possible. However I assume you mean HTC Sense, which AFAIK is a closed source shell sitting atop of Android. It would therefore be somewhat difficult.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tkolev:
If it's just the weater app/widget or any other, you can look for copies of HTC's widgets on the Android Market. There are plenty, because HTC's IMO make the most beautyfull and functional widgets. For the weater you can search for "beautyfull widgets" on the market.
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
I don't know if this could be really repetetive, since it's only happened twice, but it's 2 times in a week and a half, with a RUU and reroot, etc in between.

Reboot the phone and it white screens/freezes for no reason.

Clearing caches or doing a full wipe doesn't fix that issue.

Go to recovery and try to do a nandroid restore and get an "oops... something went wrong error"

Also notice my latest nandroid doesn't show up in the restore list.

I have to pull the sdcard, put it in my spare phone, connect to my pc and move Amon Ra back to the SD Card/Root, then put it back in the Evo, and reboot to Hboot so I can reflash recovery, and then everything seems to work again.

Including my latest nandroid showing the restore list again.

Anyhone encounter this, or know why it's happening?

BTW, using v2.3
[EVO 4G General] iitreatedii:
Flash it through Rom manager, flash clockwork and after you flash clockwork, then you flash alternate recover aka amon ra
[EVO 4G General] drtdiver83:
im pretty sure the ruu deletes the recovery because stock does not have a recovery.
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
Well, of course it does. That's not the issue.

Obviously, I had to reflash recovery after running the RUU.

The point is, it happened a few days before and a few days after I ran RUU.

I'm wondering if it's a recovery issue or an SD Card issue.

Treated, I root with UnrEVOked, which flashes clockwork, then I flash A.R. after that, but if it happens again, and I can boot up, I'll try flashing CW from Rom Manager and then A.R. afterwards.
[Galaxy Tab General] Manssoor:
Hello ..

please i want the last official Russian ROM for galaxy tab..

can any one help me ???

thx)))
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blisslove:
Does anyone know which WiFi app support proxy authentication?
[Wildfire General] Manc:
I need some help please

I have installed loads of apps recently on my phone (excess of about 80-100)

everything was going fine and i was loving the way it was

this morning, my phone was running really slow so i shut down and booted it up again, now all my shortcuts are little windows with a gear on the front, so i thought the sd card had not mounted properly, so i unmounted and mounted again, then i released all the apps that had this shortcut are actually installed on my phone not the sd card.

I moved over a couple of videos to my sd card this morning, but i dont think that would have affected the apps that are installed on the phone

i cant restore from a back up as i haven't made one yet (only put wildpuzzle 0.8 on last night)

can anyone help or point me in the right direction,

thanks for looking
[Wildfire General] brilldoctor:
Is the sd card a cheap one from ebay?
[Wildfire General] Manc:
no its the one that came with the phone

plus it dosnt seem to be the sd card thats the problem...just the apps installed on the phone
[Wildfire General] brilldoctor:
Dare i say try ruu at ur own risk. It will update u 2 froyo though. or make a nandroid and try a safe froyo file
[Xoom General] rljohnson:
I have the 3G Xoom from work and I was considering getting the WIFI so I could use it for personal use. In checking the ads I can not find that it has the MicroSD slot installed and working.

Anyone have any information on this?
[Xoom General] Gorgonesh:
None of the specs on the Moto site for either 3G or WiFi list SD capabilities. I doubt that the card would be enabled on the WiFi and not on the 3G yet. From the pics it looks like the slot is still there but they are renders so we won't know until the units start shipping.
[Xoom General] rastlin:
Well I work for a large office retail store (staples) and we are getting the wifi only version in store this week. The pre orders are currently going on now so I know that there is at least wifi built in.

Rastlin
[Xoom General] Blaisun:
confirmed by Moto Rep, SD Hardware is in the WIFI, but no support in Honey Comb YET....
[Xoom General] bwcorvus:
Correct, its there just doesn't work.

Sent From My Evo
[Optimus One, P500, V General] crc111:
Hello. I have installed SuperOneClick and I'm able to remount the system file system as rw. What apps I can safely remove from the V to minimize running services. I need the Market, of course, Navigation (just in case), browsing, messaging. I don't want the facebook, twitter, etc. (bloatware).

Thanks in advance.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] kpbotbot:
These are the apps I remove from /system/app:

AnalogClockWidget.apk

Layer.apk

androidERSEmail.apk

LGHome.apk

apkremoved.zip

LGMITS.apk

AppAdvisor.apk

LiveWallpapers.apk

BookmarksWidget.apk

MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk

CalendarWidget.apk

Maps.apk

CarHome.apk

MemoWidget.apk

CarHomeLauncher.apk

MessageWidget.apk

CertInstaller.apk

Notification.apk

ClockWeatherWidget.apk

PhotoWidget.apk

ConnectionManagerWidget.apk

Protips.apk

DigitalAlarmWidget.apk

SetupWizard.apk

DualClockWidget.apk

Street.apk

DunServer.apk

Talk.apk

Facebook.apk

thinkdroid.apk

GenieWidget.apk

Twitter.apk

Gmail.apk

VisualizationWallpapers.apk

GoogleFeedback.apk

vz-client.apk

GooglePartnerSetup.apk

Xing_release_15_UNBLOCKED.apk

GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk

YouTube.apk
[XPERIA X10 General] watever:
link to more info

http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/products/
[XPERIA X10 General] Candy[MAN]:
Wow. I am shocked but really excited.
[XPERIA X10 General] xtbk9999:
ZOMG!!1!!!1

Might hold fire on buying an Arc :D
[XPERIA X10 General] Stef_dude:
http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/products/2011/03/25/update-on-xperia™-x10/ happy happy joy joy!
[XPERIA X10 General] PaVi90:
<<The current plan is that the XperiaTM X10 will get the Android standard Camera user interface and therefore features like e.g. face recognition, smile shutter etc will be lost.>>

They promote X10 as an Android device that has the best in its camera and now... they cut off all its advanced functionalities?! What the hell ?!
[XPERIA X10 General] sp9nki:
What uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup?
[XPERIA X10 General] Avin1973:
This is an excellent change of pace, Sony, congratulations.
[XPERIA X10 General] Avin1973:
One can always stand on 2.1

I'd change that for 2.3.3 in a heartbeat. That stuff never recognizes people properly.
[XPERIA X10 General] watever:
late is better than never, at least they are listening to customers after they were bagged out for abandoning the x10.
[XPERIA X10 General] ene mene bene:
"Why are you doing this upgrade?

We have listened to our consumers."

:)
[XPERIA X10 General] junexyz:
Thanks a lot for sharing the site :::::
[XPERIA X10 General] se_dude:
I have to say this. Sorry guys..

F**K YOU WHINERS!!!!
[XPERIA X10 General] junexyz:
As long as they will not remove the HD for video its ok for me...
[XPERIA X10 General] xtbk9999:
DRM key peotection will be gone..

But is Rikard saying update over(air) internet is not possible?!
[XPERIA X10 General] qwer23:
Great news :) Any chance they're able to block our bootloader bypass with this update?

I'm owner of the big X10 but... that's a real pitty for all the other Xperia series owners.
[XPERIA X10 General] jas0607:
NO WAY! I am utterly shocked. I have hated every post on XDA begging for 2.2/2.3 because i thought they were pointless, but I stand corrected - well done guys!

:) :) :) :) :) :) :)